Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-17

ANNa va yoo 'oStsb Johi IL Nilh
you might as well submit first as last.
You had better right away take down
your check-book, mark the number of
the check, fill up the blank, sign your
name, and hand it to her. There is no
need Of wasting time. Those poor
children on the back street have beec
hungry long enough. That sick man
must have some farina. That con-
sumptive must have something to ease
his cough. l meet this delegate of .
relief society coming out of the store
of such a hard-tisted man. and l say:
"Did you get the money!" ''Of
course" she says, II got the money:
that's what | went for. The Lord told
me to 60 in and get it, and lie never
sends me on q FOOLS GRAND"
A COMFORTER IN DIRE DISASTER.
Again: / nave to tell you that il is
a woman's specific right 10 comfort
under the stress of dire disaster. she
is called the weaker vessel; but ali pro-
fame as well AS sacred history, attests
that when the crisis comes she is better
prepared than man to meet the emerg-
ency. How often YOU have seen II
woman VINO seemed to be "A disciple Of
frivelity and Incidence, who, under one
stroke of calamity, changed To a
heroine. Oh, what a great mistake
those business men make who never
tell their business troubles to their
wives! There comes some great loss
to their stores, or some of their com
p~anions In business play them "a sad
trick, and they carry the burden all
alone. He is asked IN the household
again and again: What is the matterp
But be believes it a sort of christian
duty to keep all that trouble within his
own soul. Oh, sir! your first duty was
to tell your wife all about it. She, per-
haps, might not have disentangled your
finances, or extended your credit, but
she would have helped you TO bear mis-
fortune. Iou have no right to carry
on one shoulder that which il intended
for two. There are business men here
who know what | mean. There came
A CRISIS
in your affairs. You struggled bravely
and long; but after a while there came
a day when you said: sHere | shall
have TO stop and YOU called in your
partners, and you called in the most
prominent men in your employ, and
you said: eve have got to stop
You left the store suddenly. You
could hardly make up your mind to
pass through the street and over on
the ferry-boat. You felt everybody
would be looking at You, and blam NJ
you, and denouncing you. You
fastened home. You told Jour vie
all about the affair. What did she
sayP Did she play the butterfly? Did
she talk about the silks, and the rib
bons, and the fashions? No. She
came np to the emergency. She
quailed not under the stroke. She
helped you to begin to plan right
away. She offered to 90 out Of the
comfortable home into II smaller one,
and wear the old cloak another winter.
She was one who understood your
affairs without blaming you. You
looked upon what you Thought was a
thin, weak woman's arm. holding you
up; but while you looked AT that arm
there came into the feeble muscles G
it the strength Of the eternal Gud. No
fretting. No telling you about the
beautiful house of her father, from
which you brought her, ten, twenty. or
thirty years ago. You said: .'We!l.
this is the happiest day Of nv life. ]
I'M glad i have got from under my
burden. My wife don't care-l don't
care" At the moment you were ut
terly exhausted, God sen, Il
DEBORAH
to meet the best of the Analckites and
scatter them like chail over the grail.
There are sometimes women who sit
reading sentimental novels, and who
wish that they had some grand liel 10
which to display their Christian pow
ers. o, what grand and glorious
things they could do if they only had
an opportunity |! My sisur. you Meet
not wait for any such time. A crisis
will come in your affairs. There will
be u Thermopylae in your own house
hold where God will tell You TO stand.
There are score aud hundreds OF
households to-day where as much hray-
cry and courage are demanded Of
woman as was exhibited by Grace ID r.
ling, or Marie Antoinette. or Joan Of
Arc.
Again: | remark. it is woman's
right to bring to us the Kingdom OF
CT heaven. 1t is easier for "a woman to
be a Christian thar for q man. Wht?
You say she is weaker. No. Her
heart is more responsive TO the plead
ings of Divine love. She is in vast ma
jority. The fact that she can more
easily become a Christian, | prove by
the statement that three-fourtns OF the
members of churches in all Cacisten-
dom are
so Con APPOINTS
them to DO the chief agencies for bring
ing this world back t o God. / MA,
stand here aud say the soul is I'M
mortal. There is IA man who will re-
flute it. may stand here and say we
are lost and undone without Christ.
There is a man who will refute it |
may stand here and sa, there will be a
judgment day after a while. Yonder
is some one who will refute it. But a
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